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Fifty-One Shades of Jane

By Deborah Yaffe, Feb 23 2015 02:00PM

In compensation, however, I recently ran across something extremely funny: this review of Fifty Shades of Grey, by Jane Austen herself (aka Cath Murphy, review editor of a site called LitReactor.com). It’s both a convincing pastiche of Austen’s letter-writing style and a perceptive analysis of why E.L. James’ Anastasia Steele is so not a Jane Austen heroine.